US Patent Issued to Material Security on March 11 for "Secure communications service for intercepting suspicious messages and performing backchannel verification thereon" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,229, issued on March 11, was assigned to Material Security Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure communications service for intercepting suspicious messages and performing backchannel verification thereon" was invented by Ryan M. Noon (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhishek Agrawal (San Francisco) and Christopher J. Park (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for verifying a suspicious electronic communication. To this end, a secure communications service may detect an electronic communication comprising an identifier of a purported originator of the electronic communication and an identifier of an...